1.1: The Importance Of Organizational Behavior

2.1.1 The Definition of Organizational Behavior

The Organizational Behavior (OB) studies the individual, group, and organization, and analyze the relationships among them.

And “it’s a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness”.

OB focuses on study the behaviors of individuals, and groups inside the organizations, and how their behaviors affect the performance, the efficiency, and effectiveness of the organizations. “Although debate exists about the relative importance of each, OB includes the core topics of motivation, leader behavior and power, interpersonal communication,

so, it’s very important for the leaders of the firms to give an extra attention for the skills related to relationships and communications with the stakeholders.

Usually, firms choose the best one in technical skills as a leader of the firm for the next period, but scholars in organizational behavior prove that the human skills should be the factor should be evaluated, and checked first, before choosing the leader, as the technical skills are less important in this case, and “managers can’t succeed on their technical skills alone. They also have to have good people skills”

The Human skills is “the ability to understand, communicate with, motivate, and support other people, both individually, and in groups” , and it’s one of the most important skills that the leaders need to achieve their goals. And in organizations, it’s very important to pay attention to the relationships among individuals, groups, organization itself, and the organizational behavior science helps us in

“Regardless of all the attention given to leadership and its recognized importance, it does remain pretty much of a “black box,” or unexplainable concept” and “Despite these inherent difficulties, many attempts have been made over the years to define leadership.8 Unfortunately, almost everyone who studies or writes about leadership defines it differently. About the only commonality is the role that influence plays in leadership”.

There are many definitions of the leadership, most of them emphasize on ability of the leader to influence the followers, and direct them to his/her goals, and objectives.

And many people confuse between the leadership, and management. and in the reality the difference is very big between both of them. In the history of researching on the leadership, some scholars focused on the followers, and restricted the leadership with the ability of the leader to take care of the followers, protect them along the road, and offer them a new opportunity of education, training, capacity building, and promotions at